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Trump has no plans to campaign for Moore in Alabama

President Trump won’t travel to Alabama to campaign for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore ahead of next month’s special election, a White House official told The Associated Press.

White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters told The Hill that "there is nothing on his schedule at this time" as far as a Trump campaign stop for Moore. The Alabama Republican faces Democratic opponent Doug Jones on Dec. 12.

“The president is not planning any trip to Alabama at this time, and frankly his schedule doesn’t permit him to do anything between now and election day," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters later on Monday.

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Trump last week appeared to offer support to Moore despite allegations he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32.

"We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House last Tuesday.

Trump followed that up with tweets over the weekend saying that Jones would be a puppet of Washington Democrats if elected.

Trump didn’t say if he believed the allegations, but noted that the former state Supreme Court chief justice denied the allegations about events that occurred 40 years ago.